Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 330
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise. I read them with both eyes and, on special occasions, a third one.
The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread. Unless you look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A hand held through the floodlights, then sunshine that prefers you horizontal.
Side A keeps the floodlights on after the whistle, declines a forever in a soft voice that is still warm, glides an albatross on one long kind wing, sits inside a rêverie that already knows the ending, marks the path through the woods of an old film with soft lights, and leaves the castle a house with the drawbridge still in the attic. Side B invents the future in Vienna with the accordion already there, files a Mauritanian voice under volume five of the record club, sends a letter from an island that already knows your name, downloads a file that learned to walk before the internet finished tying its shoes, bows toward a star with its manners kept, and lies in the sunshine already horizontal and happy there.
Overall mood: Warm, slightly nostalgic, and gently unfinished — full of unsealed envelopes, soft-lit trails, and B-sides that knew they were the point. Perfect for dusk drives, fields after the whistle, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a hand held through the floodlights, a forever that has already declined the offer, a seabird gliding on one wing, a rêverie that knows the ending, a path through the woods of an old film, a castle that stayed a house.
00:02:18 Explosions in the Sky – Your Hand In Mine (w/strings)
Album: Friday Night Lights OST. Label: Hip-O Select
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewcAQvJkbM4
Friday Night Lights, the score that still walks the field after the whistle. Hip-O keeping the floodlights on.
00:06:20 SALES – Can’t Be Yours Forever
https://sales.bandcamp.com/track/cant-be-yours-forever
Single: Can’t Be Yours Forever.
The single that says the quiet part in a soft voice. The shelf life already written on the label, and still warm.
00:08:35 Fleetwood Mac – Albatross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QooCN5JbOkU
Peter Green’s bird, still gliding. The longest wing in the library, and the kindest.
00:11:26 Les Imprimés – It’s Over
https://lesimprimes.bandcamp.com/track/its-over
Album: Rêverie. Label: Big Crown Records
https://lesimprimes.bandcamp.com/album/r-verie
Rêverie, which is French for the dream you are still inside. Big Crown letting the last note sit.
00:14:22 Yo La Tengo – Path to Springs
https://mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/track/path-to-springs
Album: Old Joy (Official Soundtrack). Label: Mississippi Records
https://mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/old-joy-official-soundtrack
Old Joy, the film and the soundtrack. Mississippi Records leaving the trail marked with soft lights.
00:15:27 Lisa Salvo – When
https://lisasalvo.bandcamp.com/track/when
Album: I Could Have Been A Castle.
https://lisasalvo.bandcamp.com/album/i-could-have-been-a-castle
The house that stayed a house, and still has the drawbridge in the attic.
Side B
Mood mist: Vienna inventing the future with an accordion, a Mauritanian voice filed under volume five, a letter from an island that already knows your name, a download that arrived before the word existed, a bow toward a star, sunshine that prefers you horizontal.
00:24:33 Musette – Wiener Futurismo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIhjZmymGxM
Album: A Cosmic Serenade. Label: Häpna
https://www.hapna.com/H53.html
A cosmic serenade from Häpna. Vienna looking forward, the accordion already there.
00:28:09 Malouma – Nebine
https://mrbongo.bandcamp.com/track/nebine
Album: Mr Bongo Record Club Volume Five. Label: MR BONGO
https://mrbongo.bandcamp.com/album/mr-bongo-record-club-volume-five
Mr Bongo Record Club, volume five. The desert and the dancefloor sharing a passport.
00:32:50 Shuggie Otis – Island Letter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JskUwBorS38
Single: Inspiration Information / Island Letter. Label: Epic Records
Inspiration Information, the other side. Epic keeping the envelope unsealed.
00:37:09 Mouse on Mars – Download Sofist
https://mouseonmars.bandcamp.com/track/download-sofist
Album: Niun Niggung. Label: Thrill Jockey Records
https://mouseonmars.bandcamp.com/album/niun-niggung
A file that learned to walk before the internet finished tying its shoes.
00:39:16 Ptaki, Tempelhoof & Gigi Masin – Bow Down – Ptaki Remix
https://hellyeahrec.bandcamp.com/track/bow-down-ptaki-remix
Album: Tempelhof & Gigi Masin – Hoshi (Remixed). Label: Hell Yeah Recordings
https://hellyeahrec.bandcamp.com/album/tempelhof-gigi-masin-hoshi-remixed
Hoshi, the star. Hell Yeah letting the remix keep its manners.
00:43:34 Free – Lying In The Sunshine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaSRNLmj5sM
Single: Stealer / Lying In The Sunshine. Label: Island Records
The B-side of Stealer, Island Records. Paul Kossoff’s guitar already horizontal, and happy there.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 330.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
